MEMBERS NOT WEARING MASKS INSIDE FIND A WAY FITNESS WHICH IS TEMPORARILY CLOSED AFTER 40 CASES HAVE BEEN LINKED TO THAT FACILITY. SOME GYM OPERATOR SAY THE OWNERS COULD HAVE DONE MORE TO PROTECT THE MEMBERS STARTING WITH SOCIAL DISTANCING. THE VICE PRESIDENT OF O2 FITNESS JOINS US NOW FOR MORE PERSPECTIVE ON WHAT HAPPENED AND HOW OTHER GYMS ARE SAFELY OPERATING. >> THANK YOU. >> YOU SAY IT WAS CLEAR THAT THE TEAM AT FIND A WAY FITNESS WAS NOT FOLLOWING SAFETY PROTOCOLS. WAS IT JUST ABOUT MASKS? >> IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT MASKS. I THINK THERE'S A LOT OF DEBATE AROUND THAT THROUGHOUT WHETHER THERE SHOULD BE OR NOT BUT SOCIAL DISTANCING IS THE KEY WHEN YOU ARE INSIDE AND IF YOU ARE AN EFFICIENT FITNESS THE FACILITY I FELT LIKE THEY HAD A CONFLUENCE OF PROBLEMS, IT STARTS WITH MASKS BUT THEN YOU LOOK AT THE CROWD IN THE AMOUNT OF PEOPLE THEY HAD IN A SMALL SPACE AND THE FACT THAT THERE WAS VERY LITTLE SOCIAL DISTANCING DURING A VERY HIGH CARDIO WORKOUT AND THAT WAS EASY TO FIND ON THE FACEBOOK. >> THE PEOPLE WATCHING WHO GO TO THE GYM, WHAT ARE SOME OF THE RED FLAGS THEY CAN LOOK FOR THEIR GYMS TO MAKE SURE THE PROPER SAFETY PROTOCOL IS BEING TAKEN? >> MY BAROMETER WITH THE GYM OR RESTAURANT OR ANYTHING RETAIL IS TO SEE IF THE TEAM AND THE STAFF ARE WEARING MASKS. THAT SETS A NICE BAROMETER TO HOW THEY VIEW THE PANDEMIC. THE SECOND THING BY FAR IS SOCIAL DISTANCING AND IN OUR GROUP FITNESS CLASS YOU ARE IN A BOX THAT YOU CAN'T MOVE OUT OF AND WE HIGHLY ENCOURAGE MASKS AT ALL TIMES. OUR INSTRUCTORS HAVE TO WEAR MASKS SO I THINK THOSE ARE THE KEY THINGS TO WATCH FOR AND TO SEE IF THEY HAVE EQUIPMENT TO HELP INCREASE SOCIAL DISTANCING. THOSE ARE THINGS I WOULD SAY 95 PERCENT OF FITNESS OPERATORS ARE DOING AND AFTER LAST NIGHT STORY AIRED I HAD AT LEAST A DOZEN PEOPLE REACH OUT TO ME WHO WERE OVERLY FRUSTRATED BECAUSE THIS IS THE FIRST TIME THAT SPREAD HAS BEEN LINKED TO A FITNESS FACILITY AND FOR THE CASE NUMBERS TO BE SO HIGH AND FOR THE ACTIONS TO BE BORDERLINE RECKLESS IS JUST HAVE TO SEE. >> HAVE YOU HAD ANY ISSUES THAT YOUR GYMS AND IF NOT HOW MIGHT THIS AFFECT YOUR GYM? WHY BE CONCERNED ABOUT ANOTHER GYMS CLUSTER? >> THE FITNESS INDUSTRY HAS KIND OF IMPROPERLY BEEN PINPOINTED FOR A WHILE SO WE ALWAYS WORRY ABOUT IT BUT IT HAS NOT BEEN AN ISSUE IN ALL TO OUR 11 TRIANGLE CLUBS, WE'VE HAD OVER 150,000 CHICKENS AND ZERO SPREAD, ARE 21 CLUBS NORTH AND SOUTH CAROLINA, ZERO SPREAD , EVEN ON OUR TEAMS, WE'VE HAD CASES, PROBABLY FOUR CASES OF TEAM MEMBERS THROUGHOUT OUR TWO STATES AND ALL FOUR CASES OCCURRED OUTSIDE OF OUR FACILITY AND DID NOT SPREAD INSIDE THE FACILITY. THAT'S THE SAME STORY WE ARE HEARING FROM A LOT OF OUR PARTNERS, WHETHER IT'S PLANET FITNESS, CRUNCH, OR ORANGE THEORY OR EVEN SMALL GYMS LIKE HEAT OR CORE OR PEOPLE OPERATING REP HAPPILY. >> IF YOU EVER WORKOUT IN THE GYM YOU KNOW HOW DIFFICULT IT CAN BE WITHOUT A MASK IF YOU ARE DOING IT RIGHT. WEARING A MASK JUST MAKES IT THAT MUCH TOUGHER, DO YOU THINK CERTAIN ACTIVITIES ARE RISKIER FOR COVERTS BETTER THAN OTHERS FOR EXAMPLE TAKING A CLASS VERSUS AN INDIVIDUAL WORKOUT OR RUNNING ON THE TREADMILL COMPARED TO WEIGHTLIFTING? >> ANYTHING THAT KEEPS YOU STATIONARY IS ALWAYS EASIER, IF YOU ARE CLASS WHERE MOVEMENT IS INVOLVED YOU HAVE TO MAKE SURE THAT THE TEAM THAT HAS PUT THE CLASS TOGETHER THINKS ABOUT THE SPACING THROUGHOUT THE CLASS. THAT'S MY ADVICE TO ANYBODY WATCHING THAT, BUT WORKING OUT IN A GYM IS VERY POSSIBLE IN THE STUDIES HAVE SHOWN I THINK THERE WAS A LOT OF TALK EARLY ON AS TO HOW MUCH AIRFLOW IS CONSTRICTED BY MASKS, A GREAT STUDY DONE BY THE UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN EARLIER THIS MONTH SHOWS THERE WAS VERY LITTLE AIR RESTRICTION, IT'S VERY MUCH SIMILAR TO WORKING OUT IN A HIGHER ALTITUDE SO THAT PEOPLE CAN WORK OUT IN BOONE I THINK WE ARE JUST FINE IN RALEIGH AND